Reports

President Muhammadu Buhari will be departing Nigeria for South Africa on Saturday, 13th June to attend the 25th African Union Summit which is currently taking place in Johannesburg.  A statement issued on Friday in Abuja by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said Buhari will be undertaking his […]

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Monday inaugurated the eighth Lagos State House of Assembly appealing from support from the members to lift the House beyond the common standard of excellence. The House also elected one of the most senior members, Mudashiru Obasa, as its Speakers thus ending months of bickering and subtle campaigns […]

A new set of national and state officers would emerge in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) on Saturday, www.www.aso.rocks search engine can authoritatively reveal. These set of officers would include a replacement for the current National Chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh, whose second-term national leadership of the party ends on June 10. […]

Senator Bukola Saraki, one of the major contenders for the position of Senate President in the eighth Senate when it begins, on Friday mentioned two reasons why he thinks history would not forgive the seventh Senate which ended on Thursday. One of these reasons is the Senate’s shoddy manner it handled the tragedy which marred […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday sacked Mallam Habib Abdullahi as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority. No reason was given for the sack as confirmed by presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati. He also announced the appointment of Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Ado Bayero, a lawyer, as the new Managing Director of the NPA. “The […]

The Permanent Secretary to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ambassador Danjuma Sheni, has been suspended. His suspension is as a fall out of the recall of Nigeria’s envoy in South Africa.  The permanent secretary had earlier been queried on why he issued the “unauthorised recall” of the Nigerian Ambassador. The unauthorised recall was described as embarrassing […]

Governor of Bauchi State, Mallam Isa Yuguda, has sacked all his Senior Special Assistants, Special Assistants and Personal Assistants numbering over 2, 000. The only aides he exempted from the mass purging are those he said were working directly under him. All the affected aides were sacked with immediate effect. No reason was given for […]

Nigeria’s Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, on Monday said the government would honour some prominent Nigerians by naming major streets and road in the FCT after them. In a statement released on Monday, by his spokesperson, Nosike Ogbuenyi, the minister said those to be honoured with street names include President Goodluck […]

In what looked like a revenge move for its activities during the presidential campaign, President-elect ‎Muhammadu Buhari has refused the African Independent Television (AIT) the chance to cover his activities. Buhari cited ethical issues as the reason for the move. The ban became obvious on Monday, when sSecurity operatives at the Defence House, where Buhari […]

A former commissioner with the Niger Delta Development Commission representing Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Godwin Moffat, has been sent to prison for stealing 56 transformers worth N220 million. He was sentenced to a three-year jail term by an Akwa Ibom State High Court for stealing the transformers meant for oil producing communities in the state […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday decried the last-minute looting of the nation’s resources, hurried recruitment into the public service and rushed privatisation of key financial institutions by the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration, warning that such egregious actions would have serious repercussions. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity […]